HiSilicon Kirin 955 – an 8-core chipset that was announced on April 9, 2016, and is manufactured using a 16-nanometer process technology. It has 4 cores Cortex-A72 at 2500 MHz and 4 cores Cortex-A53 at 1800 MHz.
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarks
AnTuTu 8
The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
HiSilicon Kirin 955
116855
| CPU |
51935 |
| GPU |
7316 |
| Memory |
27012 |
| UX |
31813 |
| Total score |
116855 |
GeekBench 5
The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
| Image compression |
72.65 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection |
10.7 images/s |
| Speech recognition |
19.25 words/s |
| Machine learning |
16.35 images/s |
| Camera shooting |
8.98 images/s |
| HTML 5 |
1.36 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite |
366.8 Krows/s |
Specifications
Detailed specifications of the Kirin 955 SoC with ARM Mali-T880 MP4 graphics
| Architecture |
4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53 |
| Cores |
8 |
| Frequency |
2500 MHz |
| Instruction set |
ARMv8-A |
| Process |
16 nanometers |
| TDP |
5 W |
| GPU name |
ARM Mali-T880 MP4 |
| Architecture |
Midgard |
| GPU frequency |
900 MHz |
| Execution units |
4 |
| Shading units |
64 |
| FLOPS |
122 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version |
1.0 |
| OpenCL version |
1.2 |
| DirectX version |
11.2 |
| Memory type |
LPDDR4 |
| Bus |
2x 32 Bit |
| Max bandwidth |
25.6 Gbit/s |
| Max size |
4 GB |
| Neural processor (NPU) |
No |
| Storage type |
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0 |
| Max display resolution |
1920 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution |
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP |
| Video capture |
4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback |
4K at 30FPS |
| Video codecs |
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 |
| Audio codecs |
AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC |
| 4G support |
LTE Cat. 6 |
| 5G support |
No |
| Download speed |
Up to 300 Mbps |
| Upload speed |
Up to 50 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi |
5 |
| Bluetooth |
4.2 |
| Navigation |
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
| Announced |
April 2016 |
| Class |
Flagship |
Comparison with competitors
